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Rob Schroeder wrote:
> 
> Hi there,
> 
> forgive me if the question's already been answered here, but we
> just came upon this in our LAN round. WHAT IS BEING DONE TO THE
> MANA MAXIMUM WHEN A CHARACTER REACHES ANOTHER LEVEL?! Seems to me,
> mana gets an internal die roll, with my character suffering from
> bad luck and constantly decreasing max mana since the last four or
> five "level ups"! Is there some kind of logic behind? Does something
> similar happen to life? Is it a bug? I'm quite clueless here. As
> one of my party fellows said, "I'd be stupid to go out fighting to
> get while the more i get the more mana points I lose".
> 
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> Rob Schroeder                           schr...@pobox.com
>                                         http://pobox.com/~schroeder
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	If I had to take a stab in the dark, I'd say you foolish people 
have been GETTING RANDOM SHRINES.  Bad bad bad.  In my experience, 
gaining levels makes your mana and life go up by one point each... 
however, some of the shrines you get will lower your maximum mana while 
giving you extra levels on spells like charge bolt... definitely NOT a 
fair trade, unless you're a wizard with a zillion mana anyway, and 
probably not even then.  There's no way of getting back your mana points 
except by adding magic skill, which will get maximized anyway.
	Kids, JUST SAY NO to getting random shrines.  There is a list of 
shrines at http://www.scorched.com/shrines.shtml, so only go for the 
shrines that are known.  And avoid goat shrines and cauldrons.
-- 
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persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.  Therefore all
progress depends on the unreasonable man."
                                -- George Bernard Shaw

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